System and method for providing manageability to security information for secured items

摘要

The present invention relates to improved approaches for accessing secured digital assets (e.g., secured items). In general, digital assets that have been secured (secured digital assets) can only be accessed by authenticated users with appropriate access rights or privileges. Each secured digital asset is provided with a header portion and a data portion, where the header portion includes a pointer to separately stored security information. The separately stored security information is used to determine whether access to associated data portions of secured digital assets is permitted. These improved approaches can facilitate the sharing of security information by various secured digital assets and thus reduce the overall storage space for the secured digital assets. These improved approaches can also facilitate efficient management of security for digital assets.